WELCOME TO WICO'S HOMEPAGE

WICO - "Women's International coalition for culture of peace, Non-Violence and Empowered Women"

wicoDS@gmail.com

Dr. Dalia Steiner - WICO'S Founder and President International

"Ambassador for Peace Int."

S.O.S CHINA

SUPPORT EARTHQUAKE RELIFE IN CHINA:

http://www.google.com/chinaearthquake/

Rev. Marilyn Kotulek - WICO'S USA FOUNDER

Ms. Rosmary Olive Mbone Enie - WICO'S Africa President (CEO)

INTERNATIONAL DESKS

Prof. Ada Aharoni Ms. Chinyere Offor-Ezenwokiki

Head of the Middle-East Desk . Head of the Nigerian Desk.

Ms. Dvora Pearlman Ms. Ofra Yoave

Head of the Jerusalem Desk. Head of Public Board

DECLARATION OF PURPOSE:

WICO -"Women's International Coalition " - for Culture of Peace, Non-Violence and Empowered Women",  is a Non-Profit organization (NGO)

The organization was founded in Jerusalem, Israel by Dr. Dalia Steiner, "Ambassador for Peace", and in Oklahoma city, Oklahoma USA by Rev. Marilyn Kotulek - "International White Eagle Ministries Inc". (In 2003)

The organization was founded due to similar fates of the two cities and their civilians who witnessed terror attacks and suffered damage to property, death and loss of loved ones.

On October 2001, following the events of 9/11 , declared the United  Nations that the first decade of the 21st century will be dedicated  for the advancement of Peace and non-violence culture. Eight Nobel
Prize laureates headed by the Dali Lama, Rev. Desmond Tutu and Jody  Williams – signed a joint declaration calling upon the governments and  people of the world to take real steps towards developing this ideal  and bringing forth its realization.

In their joint declaration the writers emphasized the leaders inability to prevent the creation of conflict centers and their choice  of violent means for conflict resolution. This path has brought on
destruction and increased the feelings of anxiety and insecurity to  the point of losing hope in many throughout the world. The events of  9/11, has emphasized the need for a change and to present solidarity  with the victims of the those acts of hostility and terror, to educate  and teach the values and principles of peace and non violence  beginning in schools and through to the universities". (The full resolution can be found on "The Peace Maker Site").

The organization goal is to work for the benefit of men, women and   children all over the world without regard for ethnicity or religion. To protect their lives and rights. To improve their quality of life and to advance their working knowledge in the fields of General Education, Professional Education and in developing a Culture for Peace.To build "The National Peace Centers and The High Institutes for Peace and Non-Violence Studies". To prevent violence, injustice evolving from discrimination and social inequality.

The framework will be established by the organization as International and Local projects which will be performed simultaneously in all countries.

The Women's International Coalition will operate across the world through its branches in the five continents.

The organization will pursue recognition by the UN. and its istitutions.

ORGANIZATION'S STRUCTURE:

  International Board

   Founder and International President

    Dr. Dalia R. Steiner

   WICO'S USA Founder

    Rev. Marilyn Kotulek

   Chief Executive Officer(CEO)

    WICO 'S Africa President

    Mrs. Rosemary Olive Mbone Enie-Cameroon

   Director General

    Head of Public Board

    Mrs. Ofra Yoav - Israel

Head of the Nigerian Desk

    Ms. Chinyere Offor-Ezenwokike - Nigeria

    Head of WICO- Sierra Leone and CEO

    Ms. Martina Manu Jan Kabba

Head of the Middle - East Desk

    Prof. Ada Aharoni - Israel

    Head of the Jerusalem Desk

    Ms. Dvora Pearlman - Israel

Branches Structure:

- Main branch for each continent - with five

presidents and board.

- Main branch for each country - with branch

president and board.

- District and City branches as needed subordination to

continent's main and International Board.



* signed

Dr. Dalia Steiner

WICO - International President

"Ambassador for Peace"







Contact us:    wicoDS@gmail.com

U.N RESOLUTION 1325 on 31 October 2000

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325 ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY

Security Council Resolution 1325 was passed unanimously on 31 October 2000. Resolution (S/RES/1325) is the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council that specifically addresses the impact of war on women, and women's contributions to conflict resolution and sustainable peace.

The Security Council,

Recalling its resolutions 1261 (1999) of 25 August 1999, 1265 (1999) of 17 September 1999, 1296 (2000) of 19 April 2000 and 1314 (2000) of 11 August 2000, as well as relevant statements of its President and recalling also the statement of its President, to the press on the occasion of the United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace of 8 March 2000 (SC/6816),

Recalling also the commitments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (A/52/231) as well as those contained in the outcome document of the twenty-third Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the twenty-first century" (A/S-23/10/Rev.1), in particular those concerning women and armed conflict,

Bearing in mind the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the primary responsibility of the Security Council under the Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security,

Expressing concern that civilians, particularly women and children, account for the vast majority of those adversely affected by armed conflict, including as refugees and internally displaced persons, and increasingly are targeted by combatants and armed elements, and recognizing the consequent impact this has on durable peace and reconciliation,

Reaffirming the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peace-building, and stressing the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security, and the need to increase their role in decision- making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution,

Reaffirming also the need to implement fully international humanitarian and human rights law that protects the rights of women and girls during and after conflicts,

Emphasizing the need for all parties to ensure that mine clearance and mine awareness programmes take into account the special needs of women and girls,

Recognizing the urgent need to mainstream a gender perspective into peacekeeping operations, and in this regard noting the Windhoek Declaration and the Namibia Plan of Action on Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Support Operations (S/2000/693),

Recognizing also the importance of the recommendation contained in the statement of its President to the press of 8 March 2000 for specialized training for all peacekeeping personnel on the protection, special needs and human rights of women and children in conflict situations,

Recognizing that an understanding of the impact of armed conflict on women and girls, effective institutional arrangements to guarantee their protection and full participation in the peace process can significantly contribute to the maintenance and promotion of international peace and security,

Noting the need to consolidate data on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls,

1. Urges Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict;

2. Encourages the Secretary-General to implement his strategic plan of action (A/49/587) calling for an increase in the participation of women at decision-making levels in conflict resolution and peace processes;

3. Urges the Secretary-General to appoint more women as special representatives and envoys to pursue good offices on his behalf, and in this regard calls on Member States to provide candidates to the Secretary-General, for inclusion in a regularly updated centralized roster;

4. Further urges the Secretary-General to seek to expand the role and contribution of women in United Nations field-based operations, and especially among military observers, civilian police, human rights and humanitarian personnel;

5. Expresses its willingness to incorporate a gender perspective into peacekeeping operations and urges the Secretary-General to ensure that, where appropriate, field operations include a gender component;

6. Requests the Secretary-General to provide to Member States training guidelines and materials on the protection, rights and the particular needs of women, as well as on the importance of involving women in all peacekeeping and peace-building measures, invites Member States to incorporate these elements as well as HIV/AIDS awareness training into their national training programmes for military and civilian police personnel in preparation for deployment and further requests the Secretary-General to ensure that civilian personnel of peacekeeping operations receive similar training;

7. Urges Member States to increase their voluntary financial, technical and logistical support for gender-sensitive training efforts, including those undertaken by relevant funds and programmes, inter alia, the United Nations Fund for Women and United Nations Children's Fund, and by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other relevant bodies;

8. Calls on all actors involved, when negotiating and implementing peace agreements, to adopt a gender perspective, including, inter alia: (a) The special needs of women and girls during repatriation and resettlement and for rehabilitation, reintegration and post-conflict reconstruction; (b) Measures that support local women's peace initiatives and indigenous processes for conflict resolution, and that involve women in all of the implementation mechanisms of the peace agreements; (c) Measures that ensure the protection of and respect for human rights of women and girls, particularly as they relate to the constitution, the electoral system, the police and the judiciary;

9. Calls upon all parties to armed conflict to respect fully international law applicable to the rights and protection of women and girls as civilians, in particular the obligations applicable to them under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, the Refugee Convention of 1951 and the Protocol thereto of 1967, the Convention Security Council - 5 - Press Release SC/6942 4213th Meeting (PM) 31 October 2000 on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 1979 and the Optional Protocol thereto of 1999 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 and the two Optional Protocols thereto of 25 May 2000, and to bear in mind the relevant provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;

10. Calls on all parties to armed conflict to take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, and all other forms of violence in situations of armed conflict;

11. Emphasizes the responsibility of all States to put an end to impunity and to prosecute those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes including those relating to sexual violence against women and girls, and in this regard, stresses the need to exclude these crimes, where feasible from amnesty provisions;

12. Calls upon all parties to armed conflict to respect the civilian and humanitarian character of refugee camps and settlements, and to take into account the particular needs of women and girls, including in their design, and recalls its resolution 1208 (1998) of 19 November 1998;

13. Encourages all those involved in the planning for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration to consider the different needs of female and male ex-combatants and to take into account the needs of their dependants;

14. Reaffirms its readiness, whenever measures are adopted under Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations, to give consideration to their potential impact on the civilian population, bearing in mind the special needs of women and girls, in order to consider appropriate humanitarian exemptions;

15. Expresses its willingness to ensure that Security Council missions take into account gender considerations and the rights of women, including through consultation with local and international women's groups;

16. Invites the Secretary-General to carry out a study on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls, the role of women in peace-building and the gender dimensions of peace processes and conflict resolution, and further invites him to submit a report to the Security Council on the results of this study and to make this available to all Member States of the United Nations;

17. Requests the Secretary-General, where appropriate, to include in his reporting to the Security Council, progress on gender mainstreaming throughout peacekeeping missions and all other aspects relating to women and girls;

18. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter."

The Model of the National Peace Center

Tell me my friend

Tell me my friend

It wasn’t all for naught

That millions were murdered

At the ugly altar of hatred?

That armies fought battles

And young soldiers died

Their lives cut short and wasted

For all the right and wrong causes?

That ugly head of racial hatred

Is raising again from ashes

And people kill again for their creed

In endless cycle of clashes?

That dark shadow of war and terror

Conducted in God’s name

Returned with new fervor

To murder, burn and maim?

Tell me my friend

It wasn’t all for naught?

What would it take for man

To learn to live in peace?

Copyright Yoram Eckstein 2004

PRESS RELEASE

WE HERBY SINGED UNDER : BARONESS BISHOP MARILYN KOTULEK PRESIDENT OF "INTERNATIONAL WHITE EAGLE MINISTRIES INC." OKLAHOMA CITY, OKL. USA , AND Dr. DALIA STEINER, JERUSALEM – ISRAEL, PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL – WICO " WOMEN INTERNATIONAL COALITION" NGO.-AMBASSADORS FOR PEACE, ARE HONORED TO INFORM YOU ABOUT TWO PROJECTS: 1.BUILDING THE FIRST PEACE CENTER 2. TO BUILD THE MILLENNIUM CITY IN OKLAHOMA CITY.

THE VISION OF THE TWO PROJECTS WERE GIVEN BIRTH 2 YEARS AGO AS AN ANSWER TO THE TERROR ATTACKS WHICH HIT THE TWO CITIES, OKLAHOMA CITY IN 1995, AND IN JERUSALEM, WHO WITNESSED LIVES WERE TAKEN OF OUR BELOVED ONES AND CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL DAMEGE TO PROPERTIES WHICH ARE WELL KNOWN.

THE FIRST CENTER WILL BE BUILD AS A MODEL IN OKLAHOMA CITY AND WILL BE DUPLICATED TO OTHER CITIES AND CONTINENTS.(NYC, MADRID , MOMBASSA, JERUSALEM AND OTHERS).

IN MAY 2005 , TWO CONCERTS WITH THE NYC. ORCHESTRA , SINGERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, CONDUCTED BY THE CONDUCTOR Mr. DAVID EATON WITH PARTICIPANTS OF MAYORS AND VIP'S SHALL BE HELD AS THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN "UNITED HEARTS FOR PEACE" AND ITS FUNDRAISING FOR BUILDING NUMBER ONE PROJECT ABOVE - THE PEACE CENTER OF OKLAHOMA (4 FLOORS BUILDING, AUDITORIUM WITH 3,000 SEATS, TV AND RADIO STATIONS, OFFICES, STORES , RESTAURANTS SURROUNDED BY BOTANICAL GARDENS AND MORE) .

SINCERELY,

Dr. DALIA STEINER

WICO – "WOMEN INT. COALITION

ORG." (NGO)-PRESIDENT

BARONESS BISHOP MARILYN KOTULEK

"INTERNATINAL WHITE EAGLE MINISTRIES"

PRESIDENT

WICO- ISRAEL

DECLARATION OF PURPOSE:

WICO - "Women's International Coalition-for Culture of Peace, Non-Violence and Empowered Women" - Israel, wishes to embrace the above UN resolution, and as an International project to build also in Israel "The National Peace Center and the High Institute for Culture of Peace and Non-Violence Studied" as an answer of peace. The Israel based organization will work in conjunction with governments and organization throughout the world to realize the vision of Peace and the education for Non-Violence, as well as constructing a building that would serve as a center for world peace in Israel.

As part of its activity as a women's organization, while adapting to the specific needs of the child, youth and women populations in Israel, the organization will naturally take part in additional areas
via projects in the fields of :

* Advancement and Empowerment of Women in Israel regardless of Nationality, Race or Religion in cooperation of national and international women organizations.

* Rehabilitating medical care for women, children and youth in areas of war or hostile activities, whose lives have been altered significantly as a result of such activities.

* Care and assistance to populations of weakened women including distressed young girls and children living in a background of violence in the family

* Creating employment opportunities for unemployed women and assisting with professional training for women without a profession.

* Education grants for young women who failed to complete their education, who come from backgrounds of orphanage, losing a spouse or handicapped due to hostile activities, as well as creating a special educational framework for distressed girls from disprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds and/or wedding at an early age.

* Constructing experimental "Peace Kindergartens" for children whose lives, values and thoughts have been altered by hostile activities .

* Widespread and extensive educational activity throughout all parts of the Israeli population to prevent any type of violence and promoting the values of universal peace.

Signed: 4.19.2008

Dr. Dalia Steiner

WICO'S Founder and President Int.

"Ambassador for Peace"

E-mail : wicoDS@gmail.com

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THE BIG HUG TO JERUSALEM 24.6.08

http://picasaweb.google.com/ofrabs/TheBigHugToJerusalem_June2008

Dear friends,
I'm sending you the link to picture album of Ofra Ben Shitrit from the second Hug to the Old City of Jerusalem on 24th of June.

Enjoy, with love, Dvora Pearlman

World Rural Women's Day

World Rural Women's Day
15 October

http://www.woman.ch/women/2-panorama.php

Introduction

World Rural Women's Day was launched by several international NGOs during the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Beijing 1995 and a worldwide empowerment and educational campaign is annually organized since1997 by the Women's World Summit Foundation WWSF. Celebrations and events take place in more than 100 countries around the world.

WWSF also publishes every year an OPEN LETTER TO RURAL WOMEN OF THE WORLD on a special subject (20,000 poster and Open Letters are mailed to NGOs, development organisations, Human Rights groups and the media).

About the day... World Rural Women's Day takes place each year on the 15th October. Rural women the world over play a major role in ensuring food security and in the development and stability of the rural areas. Yet, with little or no status, they frequently lack the power to secure land rights or to access vital services such as credit, inputs, extension, training and education. Their vital contribution to society goes largely unnoticed. World rural Women's Day aims to change this by bringing rural women out of obscurity at least once a year - to remind society how much they owe to rural women and to give value and credit to their work.

About the activities... Activities can be organized independently in different ways according to specific local priorities and traditions. It is important, however, that any activities or events be concrete and visible to raise the profile of rural women in the public eye. It is up to your own organization, group or committee to make this day meaningful according to your own circumstances.

Some ideas: Exposure and publicity. Mention World Rural Women's Day in all your publications, newsletters, networks or homepage, contact your local or national radio explaining why it is important that the role and work of rural women is recognized. Hold a press conference, organize an exhibition, and create a national award for exceptional rural women or women's groups.

Collaboration: Link up with sister organizations, other women's group for a joint event and to reinforce each other's efforts. For example, convene a panel discussion and invite rural women's NGOs to present their projects, discuss their needs, what works and what doesn't. Find out what your national FAO committee for World Food Day is doing - suggest a joint activity - join in with their celebrations.

Contacts: Inform local authorities, such as local extension agents, mayor, headman, tell them what you are doing.

Issue raising: Write a letter to your Minister of Agriculture or Prime Minster drawing attention to the contribution and problems facing rural women in your country. If possible, propose to visit the Minister with a delegation - or invite the Minister to come to your World Rural Women's Day event.

Special events... Organize, for example, a village fair, a stand in the main street, a sale of foodstuffs or handicraft, put on a play or a show, with songs and music to draw attention to your contribution to sustainable development and problems as rural women, invite the mayor, headman, local authorities as guests, organize a regional workshop on an issue of specific concern to rural women, a national parade through your capital city, with banners, music, etc.

Did you know... Rural women comprise more than one quarter of the total world population. 500 million women live below the poverty line in rural areas. Women produce 60-80% of basic foodstuffs in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Women perform over 50% of the labor involved in intensive rice cultivation in Asia. Women perform 30% of the agricultural work in industrialized countries. Women head 60% of households in some regions of Africa: Women meet 90% of household water and fuel needs in Africa. Women process 100% of basic household foodstuffs in Africa.

The Women International Coalition Organisation (WICO) Africa

WICO Africa wishes to empower women in claiming the right to decision making at the legislative level so that their voices are heard both locally and in society at large. Until Afican women are fully represented at senior levels of public, professional and economic leadership, we shall neither enjoy equal rights nor have an equal voice. The undervaluing og African women’s contributions to development and the under representation in decision-making are the source of much of the maginalization. Our social and economic advancement has be promoted within the frameworks of our nationals plans. Rural development is primarily the responsiblity of each country’s government. Its civil society and peopledirectly involved and is predicted on an enabling national environment, which combines effective and coherent polmicies, good governance and accountable institutions.

At the 1995 United Nations Beijing Women’s Conference many African governments committed « to ensure our equal access to and full participation in structures and decision making and increase the capapcity to particpate in decision making and leadership.. With WICO our voice can promote accountability and combat neglect from our governments and donors. WICO encourages you to claim your rights to participate in implementing and evaluation development programs, patterns of international trade and the external investment are adjusted. Women play a very special role as users and managers of natural resources which derives from the primary responsibility women have for food security, water, fuel, and family welfare. In our households women therefore have the right to co-create with men the space in which we live and decide for the future of society to which we give birth.

With the vast majority of the poor living in rural areas (three-quaters of Africa’s poor), we are key to ensuring that our governments listens to our call to put in place the right policies and services without which no farmer, no entrepreneur or donor for that matter will be willing to invest. WICO therefore urges women to claim their rights to be part of the designing their development process and evaluate themselves, what women need and what they can contribute. Women must therefore be accorded the right to own and inherit land, and the system of land distribution must be transparent, protecting the rights of the poor and the weak in our societies.

WHAT CAN WE DO ! HOW CAN WE GET INVOLVED !

Join WICO in demanding and working in partnerships with our governments to

*Empower women by giving them a large voice in decision making process on resource allocation and in design, development and implementation of development strategies

*Keep its commitments in giving women an enhanced role in all aspects of development including agriculture, nutrition, food security and in ensuring that women’s work is recognised and valued

*Provide women equal access to education, skill training, health care, property, credit and inheritance and that local, national and international institutions advance women status and mainstram gender,

*Establish and strengthen financial institutions including microfinance, saving and insurance facilities and cooperative ventures for women’s development and the development of micro, small and medium sized enterprises

*Expand women’s access to safe drinking water nd to basic sanitation

*Accelerate the process and facilitate implementation of information and communication technologies to help women be informed of vital issues concerning

*Give priority attention to policies and legislation to achieve well defined and enforceable land and water use rights and the promotion of legal security of tenure and garantee women’s enhanced access to social services

*Strengthen health systems especially in the rural areas with particularattention to reducing maternal and infant mortality, infectious diseases and provision of family planning and

*Mainstream HIV/AIDS concern into development planning, including poverty eradication and food security strategies.

Hello sisters remember, women represent about two-thirds of Africa’s population. We produce an average more than half of all the food that is grown, up to 80 per cent in Africa therefore in Empwering the African Women we are accelerating the Engine for Africa’s development.

A goodwill event to Ekona Village, Cameroon,Africa

The Ekona Village Community, Cameroon Vision Trust, WICO Africa and World Pulse (group) celebrating the Cameroon Vision Trust 10 anniversary, is seeking professionals/volunteers/sponsors for a goodwill event mission to Ekona Village, Cameroon.

The Ekona Village Community, Cameroon Vision Trust, WICO Africa and the World Pulse Group hereby announces plans to host a goodwill event to Ekona Village, Cameroon, in Central Africa for Nov. 26- Dec 5 and is looking for professionals/volunteers/sponsors to go along and facilitate workshops, volunteers and sponsor activities in their fields of their expertise/interest.
Workshop topics will include special education, nutrition, craft, the arts, Development Education -- AIDS/STD awareness, farming, irrigation, and the ecosystem.
Ekona Village and the surrounding communities, in the South West Province of Cameroon, at the Foot of Mount Cameroon and has a population of mostly poor farm workers.

Participants to the event shall have the chance to visit local/rural schools that cater to thousands of children. The group is holding a drive for donations of school supplies such as pens, pencils, paper, notebooks and crayons.
Also on the itinerary are the opportunity to work with widows, disabled persons, orphans, street children and farmers.

The list of places to visit and donations are being sought for supplies such as Band-Aids, first aid kits and books shall be pasted on the website. They include the Centre for Agronomic Research, Centre for Geologic Research, The Chief Palace, the only Health Centre in the Area and other projects by the community.

Some of the outcome of the events includes helping Disabled Persons to set up the Disability Empowerment Centre (DEC), the Disable Workers Cooperative (DWC), a Community Farm for Widows, a centre for Orphans and Street Children and an Ecological Village to promote sustainable development in the area
Members will stay with host families, getting a chance to live with and experience life among the people of Cameroon.

You shall have the chance to taste the tantalizing Cameroonian Cuisines by local women such as Kwacoco and Mbanga Soup, Kwacoco Bible, Koki and Plantains, Roasted Plaintains/Moyondo and Roasted Fish, Achu (Pounded Cocoyams) and Yellow Soup. Ndole (Vegetables) and Plaintains/yams/cocoyams, Coconut Rice, Jollof Rice, Koki Corn, Corn Chaff, Pap, Akara Beans, Akara Banana etc.

Traditional Dances from across Cameroon, Pop Music from across Cameroon. Local Brew drinks and Cameroonian Beers produced by local breweries, Pala Pala the local African Wrestling, Football Matches by local schools, sports competition by persons with disability, Agro pastoral show by local farmers, arts and craft show by members of the community and many more.

On request we shall be happy to organize trip to other parts of Cameroon.

Please note Cameroon is called Africa in Miniature hence a visit to Cameroon is like visiting the whole of Africa in one go.

Local Organizing Committee- 1) The Chief of Ekona, HRH Chief Findi, 2) Ms Rosemary Olive Mbone Enie-CEO/President WICO Africa, Executive Director-Cameroon Vision Trust, 3) Mrs Ruth Fese (Mah Fese) Chairperson Cameroon Vision Trust/Director MELODRAAG, 4) Mrs Folefack Mary-Director Community Education and Action Centre (CEAC) Ekona, 5) Mr Elvis Amik- President of the Handicap Association, 6) Mr Bah Galus- Coordinator of the Handicap Association, 6) Ms Catherine Ebie Lysongo- Coordinator of Catering.

For More Information please write to:

Ms Rosemary Olive Mbone Enie

Geologist/Gender Ambassador

CEO/President WICO Africa

Executive Director-Cameroon Vision Trust

P O Box 1075, Limbe, Cameroon

Tel: 237 99580292/

www.wicointernational.org

www.wicohome.org

www.watervoices.com

www.womensearthalliances.org

(DEEP)

Disability Education and Empowerment Programs (DEEP)

Inform, Involve and Inspire

The Disability Education and Empowerment Programs (DEEP) is an initiative of Cameroon Vision Trust, Women International Coalition Organization (WICO) Africa and World Pulse dedicated to serving men, women, and children with disabilities. We provide services and support for people with all forms of disability and their families. Currently the projects we support are in Ekona-Cameroon, Nairobi-Kenya, Kumasi-Ghana, Freetown, Sierra Leone etc.

Mission

DEEP‘s mission is to inform, involve and inspire people living with disabilities in Africa, and for those who care about them.

Get Informed!

At DEEP, we believe that Knowledge is Power. And the more you know, the more you can help. Below you will find links to presentations that will help you get informed. We hope these will help you understand the situation of people who live with disabilities in Africa. We will add more presentations periodically, so please check back!

Get Involved!

Donate:

The easiest and quickest way for you to get involved and support our work is to make a donation. DEEP has made it easy for you by accepting donations in many forms! Please visit our website and learn how you can make donations.

Volunteer Online

DEEP hopes to benefit greatly from the support and involvement of wonderful online volunteers from all over the world. As our online volunteers you have the opportunity to conduct research, write grant proposals, develop programmes, assist in fundraising, develop and carry out marketing and PR campaigns, and much more! They have even created the web site you are visiting right now!
If you would like to find out more about online volunteering, and are interested in joining the team of dedicated and talented Online Volunteers, Please visit our website to learn more.

Volunteer Onsite

We are currently not accepting applications for onsite volunteers. Make sure you sign up for email updates – volunteer opportunities will be posted as they become available. Visit our website for more

Advocate:

We are calling upon persons to act as advocate for DEEP.

Get Inspired:

At DEEP, we believe that inspiration is vital. We seek to provide inspiration to the people we serve, but we also hope we can inspire YOU!

We believe the best way to get inspired is to see the impact our work has had, both for the people we serve, and our volunteers!

Please visit our website to read the inspirational stories!

Camroon, Africa - NEWS

Here are photos we took today and yesterday during my visit to Ekona Village South West province Cameroon to meet up with Disable Persons, Orphans and Widows. The first two photo we were working with the widows in the farm to produce maize. The second photo we were with some members of a garden owned by disabled persons. the last photos we were with a group of disable persons.
Rosemary.